In short, Zhao Pu still underestimated the deterrent power of the royal family in this era, and also underestimated the soldiers' sense of awe for scholars.

Shock and awe, these are invisible and intangible, but they are extremely important.

For example, Zhao Pu has poor combat effectiveness, is not good at archery, is not good at hand-to-hand combat, is not good at weapon fighting, and is not even good at marching in the field.

But joining the identity of the prince of the royal family, coupled with the identity of a scholar, even if he failed in all aspects, the Song soldiers were still in awe, and no one would accuse Zhao Pu of not doing this or that, but saying that Zhao Pu was the first soldier and did not avoid hardships and dangers.

Originally, in order to refresh the combat effectiveness of the mandarin duck array, the training intensity was increased, and the rapid march was extremely arduous, and there were many insects and snakes on the mountain road, the food was insufficient, and the soldiers were exhausted. If it had been replaced by other troops, it would have been full of complaints and even mutiny. But the soldiers looked at Zhao Pugui as the prince, and they still took the lead, not avoiding hardships and dangers, and those complaints and complaints dissipated.

After an arduous trek, we finally arrived at Xinkou.

At this time, most of Wanyan Stickyhan's iron cavalry had already moved south, and only the baggage troops were still marching in the rear like turtles.

The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first.

A few years ago, at that time, there were only tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the Jin Kingdom, and the combat area was only in the narrow Youyan area, and the operations were mainly field battles, supplemented by siege cities, and the battles often ended in two or three months. Relying on the capture of the grain depot of Liao, relying on looting, and feeding the war with war, it can support the whole army to fight, and only need to carry very little grain. However, now there are more than 200,000 people in Jinguo, and the combat area has also expanded to Hedong, Hebei, Henan and other vast areas. The Song army was strong and talented, and the superb skills of defending the city made the battle extremely long, such as besieging a small Taiyuan, using more than 100,000 troops, and returning in vain for several months.

The consumption of grain and grass is also very large.

Besieging more than 100,000 troops in Taiyuan again, it will take at least a year to fight, relying on looting near Taiyuan, it is difficult to support at all, so you can only transport part of it from the rear, and then loot part of it from Taiyuan, so as to support all the food needs. At this moment, these chariots and horses are passing through Xinkou, transporting grain and grass to Taiyuan.

People must be self-aware, Zhao Pu doesn't think that he is better than Wan Yan Bu Li's military talent, nor does he think that Wan Yan Sticky Han will make low-level mistakes.

Attack the main force of the Jin Army, forget it!

The Jurchens originally exercised among the white mountains and black waters, and many times crawled between the mountains and mountains, like monkeys. After getting off the horse, the Jurchen warriors were still strong, and tens of thousands of Jurchen soldiers attacked, and Zhao Pu didn't think that the eight thousand half-baked mandarin duck formations could defeat the Jurchens.

Under Qi Jiguang's several years of training, the Mandarin Duck Array is indeed invincible; But he is not Qi Jiguang, he does not have the kind of military talent that uses soldiers like gods, and these Shaanxi army soldiers are not as good as Qi Jiguang's 5,000 soldiers in Yiwu.

Persimmon looking for soft pinch!

Since you can't defeat the forces of Allah, then bully those heavy troops and bully those miscellaneous armies.

So, Zhao Pu stared at a transport force in the rear, the whole army was only 5,000 people, 2,000 Jurchen iron cavalry, 3,000 Bohai people, Xi people, Han people's foot soldiers, and more than 10,000 people drove the carriage

"Don't hit the head, just hit the tail! That's you! ”

Zhao Pu looked at the team that looked like a long snake, made up his mind, and decided to ambush this team.

…………

The plan was decided, and the course of operations began.

Zhao Pu was the superintendent of the army and the nominal supreme commander of this force; Wang Yan, the commander of the first battalion, was born in the Western Army, and once participated in the defense of Bianliang, and blocked the impact of the Jin army again and again in the battle.

Wang Daniu, the commander of the second battalion, is a native of Bianliang, five big and three thick, powerful and ungrouped, once a butcher, but temporarily joined the army during the Bianliang defense war. Once, the Jin army attacked Bianliang City, and the soldiers were so frightened that they panicked, only Wang Daniu was not afraid, and raised the pig-killing knife to stab him, and as a result, he killed the Jurchen soldier and was rewarded. In this rescue of Taiyuan, Wang Daniu joined the troops in the division and was singled out in the selection.

Li Sanhe, the commander of the third battalion, was a native of Yangzhou, Jiangnan, originally a slave, but later killed people, and was sent to Shaanxi to resist the attack of Western Xia. As a result, no matter how hard this cargo is fought, he can't die, and he has repeatedly established great achievements in battles, and finally became a marquis of the Western Army.

Among the middle and low-level officers, the original family from the Western Army occupies as many as seven layers, which once again shows that the Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Longyou generation are all born strong soldiers. At this time, the Western Army was much worse than the Qin army in the pre-Qin era, but it was still far more than the strong troops in other regions.

"The Jin army is strong, and it is besieging Taiyuan at the moment, and the general of the seed division is rushing to rescue Taiyuan, and there may be a big battle with the Jin army, and the outcome is unknown. And the other two Song Army, I don't bother to say it, I look down on them, they can't do anything except play the role of the transport captain, send equipment to the Jin Army, and give away heads! The key to this battle lies with us! ”

"When the enemy does not react, hit the enemy with a dull stick and kill him with a stick!"

"We have traveled hundreds of miles, how many mountain roads we have walked, I don't know how many robes I have on my feet, and all the soldiers have been bitten by poisonous insects and poisonous snakes during the march, and there is a lot of suffering on the road, but it is worth it at this moment! We walked day and night, silently appeared in the rear of the Jin army, and the Jin army did not notice us, we just appeared behind the ass of the Jin army, hit his eyes, burst his chrysanthemums, and beat him called grandpa! ”

"In this war, we must fight a war of annihilation, not a war of rout. 2,000 cavalry, 3,000 infantry, all of them are going to die here and not a single living person escapes! As long as a part of the grain of the Jin army going south is burned, and the Jin army is short of food on the front line, the morale of the army will be shaken at that time, and the light will be a great victory for our army, and the heavy will be the siege of Taiyuan, and all the land east of the river will be preserved. At that time, I will definitely give credit to the emperor! “

The opening remarks were not military arrangements, but military mobilization to boost morale. Under the repeated encouragement, several battalion commanders, deputy commanders, and supervisors were full of war intent in their eyes.

And Zhao Pu also began to arrange combat missions.

This battle was 8,000 versus 5,000, and from any point of view, the Song army was in an advantageous position. But Zhao Pu has an extremely bottomless bottom line in his heart, not only because this is the maiden battle he commanded, but also because the Song army has a phobia of gold from top to bottom.

Although the usual training is okay, who knows if it will be out of the basket at the critical moment.

"Wang Yan, you lead 3,000 soldiers and horses, and are responsible for attacking in the middle, cutting off the Jin army from the middle, turning the Jin army into two, and separating the Jin army's infantry army from the cavalry; Wang Erniu, you led 2,000 soldiers and horses to besiege the Jin Army's infantry army, and used the Mandarin Duck Formation to quickly destroy the enemy; And Li Sanhe led 3,000 infantry to attack the Jin Army's iron cavalry! There are 2,000 soldiers and horses left, come with me to help the ministry! ”

In this battle, the main thing was to burn the grain and grass equipment and exterminate the grain transportation team. The battle was divided into three steps, the first was to stop the head at a dangerous position, cut off the path of the Jin army's advance, and make it difficult for the Jin army to escape. Then a Song army intervened horizontally, separating the infantry and cavalry of the Jin army, and broke each one; The second step is to shorten the attack distance to avoid the huge lethality brought by the cavalry impact and bow and arrow shooting of the Jin army, and at the same time set fire to the grain and grass of the Jin army, and the third step, if the Jin army will take advantage of the chaos to flee and flee towards the mountains on both sides, then the western army can give full play to the advantages of mountain warfare and destroy the enemy; The fourth step is to quickly evacuate to the mountains, once they reach the mountains, no matter how powerful the Jin cavalry is, they will not be able to catch up.

The whole campaign requires a fast combat speed, a quick battle, and a quick evacuation. Once it drags on for too long and attracts reinforcements from the Jin army to attack, it will not be good at that time.

"Remember, the time of this battle is only one hour, half an hour to solve the Jin army, escape from the battlefield, flee, and not let the Jin army chase a trace!" After assigning the task, Zhao Pu once again told him that this battle was very important and he should not be careless.

The task was issued, and the search for the ambush site began.

In some places, the terrain is too dangerous, and at first glance it is a place of ambush, which is naturally abandoned; Some places were too flat for cavalry charges, and were not ideal for ambushes; There are also some places that are too close to the county seat occupied by the Jin army and are not suitable; There are also areas that are far from the mountainous area of Taiyuan, which is not conducive to evacuation and is not the best ambush location.

There were eighteen ambush locations, and finally, after a lot of thinking, due to the analysis of various generals, it was decided to ambush a place called Wild Fox Slope.

Wild Fox Slope is an undulating hillside with thatch half a knee high, and a half-meter-wide path in the middle, which can only accommodate a horse-drawn carriage. On the left is a small river about a meter wide, and on the right is a dense deep forest, which is densely rocky and unsuitable for cavalry charges. It only takes ten minutes to reach the mountains in the distance, and it is safe to evacuate.

It's not the best place to ambush, but it's the best place to do it.

In order to prevent mistakes, Zhao Pu personally inspected the ambush site three or four times, and thought through the problems that might arise before making a decision.

On June 18, more than 5,000 Jin troops once again escorted grain and grass to Taiyuan, and the battle was about to break out.

PS: I'm so tired

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